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Study: Sun nature’s aphrodisiac by Josh Salisbury josh@jewishnews.co.uk @josh_salisbury
Getting out in the sun boosts your sex drive according to an Israeli study, because sunlight causes you to release higher levels of sexual hormones. A research team from Tel Aviv University found that P53, a protein in the skin cells that protects DNA from being damaged by sunlight can seemingly also get humans in the mood for love. Researchers exposed 32 adults to different levels of ultraviolet radiation from sunlight, while quizzing them about their libido. When they were asked to avoid sunlight for two days, then sunbathe for 25 minutes, both the male and female volun-
A protein in skin cells seems to get humans in the mood
teers were more sexually excited, it was found. “Our lab studies skin cancer, and we accidentally started looking into how rays from the sun affect this protein and how in turn it impacts on sexual desire,” professor Carmit Levy, of the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, told The Times of Israel. “There are many proteins we observed changing in the blood after exposure to sunlight that are related to passion.” The findings have been peer-reviewed and published as a cover story in the scientific journal Cell Reports. Scientists have known for years that sunlight plays a role in both the behavioural and hormonal regulation of sexuality in mammals. However, the mechanism responsible
for this regulation remained unknown, so the Israeli team created an experiment to uncover the details. In the first stage of the experiment, mice were exposed to UVB rays, resulting in “dramatic” increases in hormone levels. Then the scientists removed the P53 protein from the mice’s skin cells, to test whether it was behind the observed hormone increases. Finally, 32 people were questioned about their romantic feelings after sunbathing, with both men and women on the study reporting increased desire. The research could lead eventually to therapies that assess p53 levels and administer specific amounts of UVB radiation, mimicking sunlight, to boost sex drive.
POPE URGED ON TORAH COMMENTS University scraps controversial course Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has asked Pope Francis to retract a recent comment about Jewish law that it said might lead Catholic listeners to “derogatory conclusions” about Jews. Rabbi Ratzon Arusi, chair of the Chief Rabbinate’s Commission for Interreligious Affairs, sent a letter to the
Vatican, expressing concerns about a lecture on 11 August about God giving the Torah to the Jews, Reuters reported. “God offered them the Torah, the Law, so they could understand his will and live in justice,” Francis said in the homily, according to a translation provided by the Vatican.
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He then said: “The Law, however, does not give life, it does not offer the fulfillment of the promise because it is not capable of being able to fulfill it. The Law is a journey, a journey that leads toward an encounter … Those who seek life need to look to the promise and to its fulfillment in Christ.”
A Spanish university has cancelled a course titled Auschwitz/Gaza: A Testing Ground for Comparative Literature, according to the European Jewish Congress. The course at the University of Santiago of de Compostela in Galicia was criticised by Jewish groups for trivialising the Holocaust by comparing it to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The
Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned the seminar in a letter sent to Spain’s minister of universities. “This very title and expected content is ... a banalisation of the Holocaust, which can incite to hatred and violence against Jews,” wrote Shimon Samuels, the center’s director for international relations. The university has not issued any comment.
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